Description
Regulatory Business Analyst
Department: Platform Change, London
Location: City of London
Overview of Platform Change
We are a friendly, supportive and collaborative team comprising of Programme and Project Managers, Business Analysts and PMO, who manage the analysis and delivery of platform wide change programmes and projects.
Key duties
We are looking for a Regulatory Business Analyst for our Regulatory Programme:
* Lead Comprehensive Business Analysis: Oversee end-to-end business analysis for the regulation, including regulatory interpretation, GAP analyses, and documentation of detailed business requirements.
* Change Impact and Solution Design: Oversee and assess change impacts, identify viable solutions and document detailed functional business requirements.
* Shape Operating Models: Facilitate and lead requirements-gathering workshops with senior stakeholders to define business needs across organisational structures, process workflows, and technology solutions.
* Deliver High-Quality Artefacts: Produce clear, actionable deliverables such as process maps, user stories, and requirements traceability matrices to enable successful delivery.
* Support Implementation: Partner with project teams to support testing, change readiness, and successful embedding of new processes and systems.
* Stakeholder Engagement & Management: Establish strong working relationships with stakeholders, capturing, challenging, and refining complex business requirements.
* Exemplary BA Leadership: Act as a role model and advocate for Business Analysts, fostering knowledge sharing and best practice adoption.
* Oversight of BA Team and Deliverables: Provide direction, guidance, and oversight to other Business Analysts within the programme, ensuring the quality, consistency, and timely delivery of all business analysis outputs.
* Drive Best Practice: Contribute to the development and maintenance of best practices, setting standards for business analysis excellence across the Platform Change function.
Essential Skills and Experience
* Minimum of 10 years' experience in business analysis, with at least 5 years in a senior or lead BA regulatory role.
* Professional business analysis qualification (e.g., IIBA CCBA minimum, CBAP preferred, PMI-PBA, or equivalent).
* Proven experience leading and developing business analyst teams, working on large-scale transformation programmes.
* Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with proven expertise in influencing senior leadership and managing relationships to inspire confidence and maximise contributions across a wide range of stakeholders.
* Advanced analytical, problem-solving, and documentation abilities. Logical and structured thinker with a rigorous approach to problem-solving.
* Strong skills in written, visual, presentational, and verbal communication at all organisational levels.
* Demonstrated commitment to collaboration, with a proven ability to deliver shared objectives within complex environments.
* Proactive, self-motivated, and able to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
Highly Desirable Skills and Experience
* Experience within the Asset Management industry and has a strong understanding of the post-trade landscape.
* Experience with post-trade global (EMEA, US and APAC) regulations (T+1 Settlement, CSDR, EMIR, SFTR, US SEC Treasury Clearing).
* Traceability of business requirements back to regulations.
* Vendor stakeholder management and business readiness experience (Aladdin and CTM).